RoyGBivCap

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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
> No - why participate in a forum if you fundamentally disagree with the way it's run. The forum is useful because of its users in spite of how it's run. Just like reddit.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Zoomers these days seem to think Bill is a benevolent do-gooder due to Gates foundation propaganda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjHMoNGqQTI Those of us who were computer nerds in the '90s know he and Microsoft were
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
The fact that they didn't in the '90s demonstrated to me that the regulators are basically toothless (worthless) in my opinion.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
> while /r/actuallesbians is filled with men pretending to be women Accurate: https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/actualles...
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
I always mess up some mundane detail...
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
"Quarantined" (wrongthink) subs and I think NSFW ones. Probably more now as they continue to trend toward MiniTrue.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
It's completely off topic and very culty to bring up Musk in a thread about IBM.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
With their blatantly sexist and racist policies, and their Free Speech bait & switch I vehemently disagree: From reddit a employee: "Our rule1 protects groups that are attacked based on a vulnerability, which doesn't pertain t
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
If you don't verify your email a lot of the site is unavailable to you. This is not disclosed on sign up.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Yeah you don't want to install their extension as it stands. Which is why they try so hard to push it, instead of just putting the analyzer on the front page. See if you can even find it: https://www.fakespot.com/ Mean
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
No real world analogy applies when the service is publicly accessible via the internet.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
I remember when this passed and thinking that it was all the big, incompetent businesses that can afford lawyers on retainer making sure that only big businesses that can afford lawyers on retainer maintain their position of superior power
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Probably boring to most people but I created a tool to nail exactly 40 hours a week contracting using the laziest possible inputs getting me out as early as possible on Friday: https://github.com/cynoclast/time Usage e
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
> That would be it. I won capitalism. Pet hypothesis: A lot of us say that, not being in the position to. But when you finally exit the working class and are no longer required to work, people tend to work on passion projects instead.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
> It's also not much of a reach to imagine use cases here. AI trained on a company's corpus of internal documents is an extremely common idea right now. DBX is sitting on a trove of data that is specifically well-suited for bui
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
I had closed the HN thread, but after reading this line, I reopened it: > During operation, the covert operating system (AMSS) has complete control over the hardware, microphone and camera. W-T-F Microphone and camera control?! If this
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Or just completely drop the ball and never get back to you.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
I think reviewing code is a much better method. It's a real skill you'll actually employ. You're coming at the code cold, which is actually a realistic scenario you'll encounter on the job. Your ability to catch bad id
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Where I live they use them to blow leaves, debris, and trash off of a parking lot. Maybe not a rake, but a broom would be a welcome change. And honestly not much slower.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Not when it's bouncing up and down the spectrum seemingly randomly. The "random" nature of the operator repeatedly gunning the engine but not just holding there is way, way, way worse than if it was just the same spectrum, bu
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Wow. I thought I had a lot with over 900. Mostly exported from Brave because I just started using a password manager less than a year ago.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
Makes the entire article a glorified anecdote, IMHO.
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by RoyGBivCap 3y ago
> My main worry in seeing this -- like all accessibility equipment -- is that it will be outrageously priced or locked up behind some kind of insurance coding so as to capture that segment of the market; most medical groups aim for VFW-e
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by RoyGBivCap 4y ago
There are user preferences accessible only through new reddit. That's the only reason I can think of to use it.
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by RoyGBivCap 4y ago
I pasted in a code snippet and asked if it was threadsafe (I already knew it wasn't) and it confirmed what I knew, and gave a simpler solution that worked for my particular use case that what I would have done. Anything to do with thre
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by RoyGBivCap 4y ago
I wish I'd known this. Oregon's bi-annual "emissions test" where they hook up the inspection machine to the ODB port and let the car lie to it is absurd. When I first heard about it I assumed they'd put some device
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by RoyGBivCap 4y ago
> I tried for years beforehand- to get moving up, but told it wasn't possible(yet). I even tried playing the 'I have another offer elsewhere' lie card, with nothing to show for it. This is why you don't lie about it.
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by RoyGBivCap 4y ago
In America maybe. This was in Sweden.
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by RoyGBivCap 4y ago
Watching so-called adults throw tantrums over people they hate being allowed a voice is such a disappointment.
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by RoyGBivCap 4y ago
Also, Asperger's, which he's publicly admitted to having.

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